Hi Andreas I hope you're well.ÿ inre: AMTX/AWRE/TI/USRX,
It was,and is, my understanding that TI not being a producer of software or modems had a deal with AMTX to license it's OEMs to use the AMTX DMT, however, maybe I'm wrong and it didn't extend to DMT...I don't know.
In my previous post my interest was the following question I asked Norman.
Norman where did you get the inf. about TI chips bundled with AWRE DMT software? I haven't seen that. The only thing I saw was not a year ago but in April 97.
If that is true it looks good from my point of view for AWRE. I just would feel more comfortable in confirming it.
The following is from the TI web site.
U.S. Robotics and Texas Instruments Join on x2/DSL Hybrid Modem Program
x2/DSL Modems Planned for Commercial Channels in 1998
SKOKIE, Ill. -- (May 12, 1997) -- U.S. Robotics (NASDAQ:USRX) and Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) announced a strategic initiative to deliver a family of affordable and upgradeable "hybrid" modems supporting both dial-up access, including U.S. Robotics' x2 56 Kbps analog, and rate adaptive Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL). The product family will be called x2/DSL and will run on Texas Instruments' industry performance leading TMS320C6x digital signal processing (DSP) platform. Capable of processing 1.6 billion instructions per second, the 'C6x has the processing power to implement the x2/DSL. U.S. Robotics plans to introduce x2/DSL modems in the first half of 1998.
U.S. Robotics' Advanced Development Group will develop DSP software for x2/DSL and incorporate DMT algorithms for ADSL modulation recently licensed from Aware, Inc. as well x2 56K algorithms developed by U.S. Robotics.
ti.com
Software is an integral part of remote access products. TI, through internal development and licensing agreements with such companies as Amati Communications, has the ability to bundle the appropriate software and deliver a complete solution to the OEM. This approach also enables the optimum partitioning of hardware and software components, maximizing characteristics for robust solutions.
"TI will be an important player in the advancement of standard ADSL technology," said James Steenbergen, president and CEO of Amati Communications. "The Amati/TI development partnership is a significant step toward meeting the cost and performance necessary for the success of ADSL technology."
"U.S. Robotics has stayed in the forefront of modem technology in part because of the availability of leadership IC technology from Texas Instruments," said Ashgar Mostafa, vice president and general manager of U.S.Robotics Access Broadband Division. "TI's Access Products organization is an important business development that will help us push ahead in networking markets even faster in the years ahead."
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